F.P. Journe Octa Automatique Réserve Nacre Ref. AR Boutique Rose Gold Pink Mother of Pearl Dial

Rose gold with pink shell is the warmer of the two Réserve Nacre dials, and the one that most clearly reads as a boutique piece rather than a standard catalogue watch. Journe introduced the Nacre idea in 2012 to give his own shops something the dealers could not stock, and the Réserve version ran only four years before it was dropped. It has not been offered again since, in any Octa size or metal, and the run was small.

An 18K 6N gold case, with pink mother of pearl forming the ring outside a 5N guilloché silver center, so the metal and the shell end up sitting within a shade of each other. The effect is a good deal quieter than the blue version and harder to photograph well. Off center hours and minutes, small seconds running into them, and the large date above. Gilt steel hands throughout, over a polished case.